Hajime Akimoto, Director of
Atmospheric Composition Research Program, Frontier Research System for Global
Change (FRSGC) has received the 2002 Haagen-Smit Award. The Award was newly founded
in 2001 being named after the discoverer of photochemical smog in Los Angeles.
The nominees are selected from articles appeared in Atmospheric Environment journal
in the past, and two papers are selected each year.

The awarded article
is; N. Kato and H. Akimoto, "Anthropogenic Emissions of SO2
and NOx in Asia: Emission Inventories", Atmospheric Environment, 26A,
2997-3017, 1992. In this paper, anthropogenic emissions of SO2
and NOx were estimated for 1975-1987 on country-bases in whole area of Asia. The
paper, a pioneering work of this kind, has been cited more than 150 times, and
widely used in atmospheric chemistry research using chemical-transport models.

The
study has been taken over in the Emission Inventory Sub-Group in Atmospheric Composition
Research Group of FRSGC. The targeted species have been expanded to include SO2
(sulfur dioxide), Nox (nitrogen oxides) CO (carbon monoxide), VOC (volatile organic
compound), Black Carbon, NH3 (ammonia), CH4
(methane), and N2O(nitrogen monoxide). Emission
inventories for 1995 has been completed, and the study is now directed to estimate
future emissions up to 2020.